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EyePyramid and a Lesson on the Perils of Attribution

  • Posted on:January 30, 2017 at 12:02 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Martin Roesler (Director, Threat Research)
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In the past weeks, information-stealing malware EyePyramid made headlines after it was used to steal 87GB of sensitive data from government offices, private companies and public organizations. More than 100 email domains and 18,000 email accounts were targeted, including those of high-profile victims in Italy, the U.S., Japan and Europe.

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Tags: attributionEyePyramid

Do Attribution and Motives Matter?

  • Posted on:October 6, 2015 at 10:30 pm
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Kyle Wilhoit (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Whenever people think of APTs and targeted attacks, people ask: who did it? What did they want? While those questions may well be of some interest, we think it is much more important to ask: what information about the attacker can help organizations protect themselves better?

Let’s look at things from the perspective of a network administrator trying to defend their organization. If someone wants to determine who was behind an attack on their organization, maybe the first thing they’ll do use IP address locations to try and determine the location of an attacker. However, say an attack was traced to a web server in Korea. What’s not to say that whoever was responsible for the attack also compromised that server? What makes you think that site’s owner will cooperate with your investigation?

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Tags: advanced persistent threatsAPTsattributionmotivestargeted attacks

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